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UN VIAJE QUE HABLA DE LO QUE SE DESVANECEViajar es moverse y transformarse. Supone algo más que una colección de destinos: implica comprender la fragilidad de cada lugar, que todo cambia y que la memoria se alza como el unico territorio que permanece. En esta obra Espido Freire nos lleva de la mano por escenarios que se viven, pero que luego se desdibujan y se transforman: el Damasco anterior a la guerra, los paramos solitarios de Yorkshire, el Madrid galdosiano, Bath y sus ecos de Jane Austen. Cada lugar funciona como un espejo donde se entrecruzan la literatura y la vida, la historia y lo que queda de ella. Guia de lugares que ya no existen es mas que un libro: es un mapa emocional, un cuaderno de viaje escrito con la tinta de la nostalgia y la lucidez.UN LIBRO SOBRE LO QUE SIGNIFICA VIAJAR QUE CAUTIVARA TANTO A AMANTES DE LOS VIAJES COMO A QUIENES BUSCAN HISTORIAS INSPIRADORAS

En Hacia el sur. Viajes por España de Virginia Woolf, se recopila por primera vez todo lo que la autora británica escribiósobre sus tres viajes por España. Estos textos, algunos de ellos inéditos en castellano, van mas alla del viaje. Virginia Woolf muestra como ladescripcion del paisaje exterior es una prolongacion del mundo interior. En sus paginas acompañara a la escritora por barco,tren y a lomos de una mula por diversos parajes del sur de España; Sevilla, Granada, las Alpujarras Su impronta la deja por escrito en su diario, cartas y en distintos ensayos que publico. Una oportunidad para profundizar en una de las grandes escritoras del siglo xx y redescubrir la tierra que habitamos un siglo despues.

Una mujer argentina decide emprender un viaje a Kerala, en el sur de la India. Lo que comienza como una travesía externa se transforma, paso a paso, en un recorrido íntimo hacia lo más profundo de sí misma. A traves de paisajes vibrantes, encuentros inesperados y contrastes culturales que sacuden, la autora teje una bitacora tanto sensorial como emocional. Con humor, lucidez y una sensibilidad aguda, sus voces interiores sabias, criticas, tiernas la acompañan en este transito vital. El simbolo del nudo infinito atraviesa la obra como metafora de ciclos, conexiones y aprendizajes.

Grief, joy and spilled rum at the worlds death festivalsBy the time Erica Buists father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. Erica searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies.With Mexicos Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, she decided to confront death head on by visiting seven death festivals around the world one for every day they didnt find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one Erica searched for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety.This Partys Dead is the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that theyre going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesnt seem so scary after all.

How I Found Livingstone (1872) recounts Henry M. Stanleys 1871 expedition from Zanzibar into the East African interior to locate the missing missionary-explorer, culminating at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the laconic greeting, Dr. Livingstone, I presume?. Combining brisk reportage with Victorian travelogue, Stanley details caravan logistics, illness, cartography, and encounters with Arab-Swahili traders and African communities. The prose shifts between sensational dispatch and careful observation, situating the journey amid newspaper-fueled exploration and debates over slavery, commerce, and geographical knowledge. A Welsh-born journalist who made his career with the New York Herald, Stanley was commissioned by James Gordon Bennett Jr. to turn a global scoop into imperial theater. Seasoned by war correspondence and driven by rivalry, he marshaled instruments, porters, and patronage from Zanzibars court. His training shapes the books episodic structure and evidentiary tone; his later African ventures and controversies illuminate the ambition animating this first major narrative. Recommended to readers of exploration history, media studies, and African historical geography, this classic rewards critical engagement. Read it for vivid route-maps and fieldcraft, and as a revealing document of Victorian publicity, courage, and prejudice.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Gatherings from Spain is a discriminating travelogue that assembles vivid sketches of Spanish life, landscape, and institutions in the 1830s40s. From ventas and mule-tracks to patios and bullrings, Ford couples picturesque description with a brisk, quasi-ethnographic intelligence. Ironical, allusive, and amply annotated, the book stands between Romantic scene-painting and early Hispanist inquiry, attentive to architecture, painting, ritual, and speech in a country reshaped by the Peninsular War. Richard Ford (17961858), an English gentleman-scholar and connoisseur of Spanish art, lived and travelled widely in Spain in the early 1830s. Fluent in the language and moving with ease from Andalusia to Castile, he amassed notebooks and drawings that informed both his Murray Handbook and these essays, blending antiquarian rigor with the improvisatory tact of the seasoned traveler. This edition rewards scholars of Iberian studies, Victorian literature, and travel history, and it delights curious readers planning or dreaming of Spain. Read it for luminous description and shrewd counsel, and as a historically candid, intelligent companion to the myths that long framed the peninsula.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Malay Archipelago (Vol. 1&2) fuses travel narrative, natural history, and ethnography, recounting Alfred Russel Wallaces eight-year journey (18541862) through Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, and New Guinea. In lucid Victorian prose he interleaves scenes of monsoons, volcanoes, and ports with exacting notes on orangutans, birds of paradise, beetles, and plants. Attention to routes, islands, and past sea levels underwrites a comparative method that culminates in the famous "Wallace Line," the faunal boundary between the Oriental and Australasian realms. Standing with Darwins Voyage of the Beagle, it is a foundational work of biogeography and a classic of scientific travel writing. Wallace, a self-taught surveyor-turned-naturalist and professional collector, reached the archipelago after an Amazon venture, financing research by selling specimens. His malarial epiphany at Ternate crystallized a theory of natural selection, shared with Darwin in 1858; these volumes distill the observational discipline and logistical improvisation that made such insights possible. Readers of evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and environmental history will find these volumes indispensable, while admirers of travel literature will relish their narrative vigor and ethnographic attentiveness. As a primary document, it rewards scholars and curious generalists seeking the origins of ecological thought.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1898, Korea and Her Neighbors interweaves horseback travelogue with a clear-eyed political anatomy of late Joseon. Bird records clothing and housing, markets and magistracies, and the textures of village and court life while tracing the shocks of the SinoJapanese War, Queen Mins assassination, and King Gojongs refuge in the Russian legation. In supple Victorian prose, she shifts from topographical detail to frontier geopolitics, weighing Japanese reform, Chinese retreat, and Russian advance against Korean institutions. Isabella L. Birdlater Bird Bishopwas a Scottish traveler and the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Years in East Asia and disciplined notetaking shaped her method: slow itinerancy, interviews across rank, and careful triangulation. Restless health, humane curiosity, and missionary and consular networks drew her to Korea from 1894 to 1897, supplying unusual access. Readers of diplomatic history, anthropology, and Korean studies will find Korea and Her Neighbors an indispensable primary source. Read with awareness of its Victorian gaze, it rewards with granular description and shrewd, often prescient judgments. For tracing Koreas passage into modernity amid empire, few narratives are as vivid or instructive.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Olivia in India is a sprightly epistolary novel in which a young Scottish traveler reports, with lucid wit and tact, on the textures of British Indiarailway journeys and hill-stations, verandah gossip and bazaar pageants, dust-storms and kindnesses. The letters accumulate into a novel of manners whose gentle satire never masks a steady moral curiosity. Written in the Edwardian twilight, it belongs beside light-hearted Raj narratives and travel fiction, mixing observational comedy with etched landscapes and an understated romance. Writing as O. Douglas, Anna BuchanScottish novelist and sister of John Buchanperfected a mode of domestic realism attentive to place, civility, and the small heroism of everyday life. Her Borders upbringing and preference for epistolary immediacy shape this early work: the letter-form legitimizes a female spectators intelligence while preserving reticence. Without polemic, she translates imperial encounters into scenes of manners, revealing how curiosity, homesickness, and moral poise inform Olivias gaze. This poised, companionable novel will reward readers interested in womens travel writing, Edwardian comedy, and humane portraits of the Raj. It is an inviting point of entry to O. Douglass oeuvre and a supple text for discussions of gendered spectatorship, social satire, and the uneasy comforts of home abroad.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days chronicles Nellie Blys 188990 circumnavigation, conceived as a real-life answer to Jules Vernes fiction. Writing in brisk, first-person reportage, Bly knits together ports and timetablesLondon, Brindisi, Suez, Colombo, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Franciscothrough the eras steamships, railways, and telegraph. She interviews Verne in Amiens, notes imperial infrastructures and cultural encounters, and dwells on the logistics of traveling with a single gripsack and one dress. The book belongs to late nineteenth-century New Journalism and travel writing, melding speed, spectacle, and empirical observation for a mass readership. Bly (born Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) was a pathbreaking reporter for Joseph Pulitzers New York World, famous for Ten Days in a Mad-House and other investigative stunt pieces. Her record-setting voyageshadowed by rival Elizabeth Bislandwas at once a circulation gambit and a feminist wager, proving a woman could traverse the globe unchaperoned, manage money, and master schedules within the industrial networks of modernity. Readers of travel literature, journalism history, and gender studies will find this a propulsive primary source: a narrative of motion that also reveals the infrastructures and prejudices of its moment. For its pace, candor, and cultural insight, Blys classic remains indispensableand unexpectedly contemporary.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Across Patagonia (1880) is Lady Florence Dixies brisk, unsentimental chronicle of a horseback traverse of the Patagonian steppe and Andean foothills. Combining adventure narrative with precise topographical observation, she dwells on the tyranny of wind, the discipline of campcraft, perilous river crossings, and encounters with guanaco, puma, and condor. Written within the vigorous tradition of late-Victorian travel writing, the book converses with earlier scientific travelers such as Darwin while staking a rare female claim to authority, alternating lyrical panorama with cool assessments of colonization and pastoral prospects. Born into the Douglas family, Dixie was a skilled horsewoman, journalist, and outspoken advocate of womens emancipation. Those commitmentsand a taste for strenuous sportpropelled her toward a region British readers still imagined as terra incognita. Drawing on field notebooks and reporters habits of verification, she fashions a voice at once empirical and audacious, challenging the masculinized codes of exploration. This edition will reward readers of travel literature, environmental history, and gender studies alike. As a primary source for the cultural geography of the Southern Cone and a gripping tale of endurance, Across Patagonia remains indispensableboth for its vivid pages and for the independence of mind that animates them.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.